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Speech by Ivana Bacik on Eighth Amendment Committee Report
I welcome the Minister to the House, and welcome this important and historic debate. First - I, and my party, Labour, fully support the report’s recommendations, in particular the recommendation that the Eighth Amendment, Article 40.3.3, …
Time for Government to ban non-compostable cups
Labour Party Environment spokesperson, Senator Ivana Bacik, has called on the Government to ban non-compostable coffee cups in tandem with introducing the latte levy. This comes as major retailer, Argos, saw a huge surge of people buying …
Repeal the 8th
For many years, I have campaigned for Repeal of the Eighth Amendment; ever since my student days when I was taken to court and threatened with …
Gender Pay Gap Legislation
On 25th October 2017, a bill that I had introduced in the Seanad in May was passed through Committee stage with government support. My gender …
Vótáil 100
As chairperson of the Vótáil100 committee which is organising the celebrations around the 2018 centenary of women’s suffrage in Ireland, I …
Syrian Soldiarity
Like all of us, I have been appalled and distressed at the horrific scenes of bombing in Aleppo and other towns and cities across Syria, and …
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